Newcomen Road
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Newcomen Road by Robin Drayton as part of the Geograph project.
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Newcomen Road
Image: © Robin Drayton Taken: 26 Apr 2010
Named after Thomas Newcomen, who developed the first practical steam engine for pumping water. A small plaque http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1854359 on the wall behind the parked cars commemorates the fact that his workshop stood here. Elsewhere in Dartmouth there is a memorial http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1854347 to Thomas Newcomen and an example of one of his steam engines http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/677020 .
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Image Location
Latitude
50.350168
Longitude
-3.57868